Modifying Laserwriter Print Dialog

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From: Samuel Hahn
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1990 22:02

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Here is a VERY useful MacTip from the latest issue of MacUser.

For those of you that constantly create PostScript files with the LaserWriter
Driver, cmd-F no more!

You can easily add a checkbox to the LaserWriter Print dialog.... Using 
ResEdit, open up the DITL -8191 resource AS A DITL template (using "Open As 
Template").  Find the item with the Name "Disk File" and change its "rectangle"
from 0 0 0 0 to 49 320 65 400.

Now when you use the printer driver, you will see a new option, called "Disk
File" that when enabled, will spool the postscript file to disk!   

Note:  The file generated DOES NOT contain the Laser Prep instruction set 
necessary for initialization, if you need to generate a file that does include
these instructions, you still have to use CMD-K.

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